$8 Million Worth Of Distortions
Two Bush ads full of misleading and false statements ran more than 9,000 times in 45 cities last week.
Summary
Two misleading Bush ads accusing Kerry of supporting tax increases on gasoline and middle-class parents were running heavily last week. According to the Campaign Media Analysis Group of TNS Media Intelligence, which tracks TV ads in the top 100 markets, the two Bush ads accounted for nearly half of the estimated $16 million spent by Bush and the Republican National Committee during that week alone.
Both ads repeat claims we've repeatedly disputed here. They both attempt to portray Kerry as eager to raise taxes on middle-income taxpayers, which Kerry has said consistently he won't do. One ad characterizes Kerry's votes against proposed tax cuts as votes to "raise taxes," an outright falsehood.
The above just arrived in my inbox from Factcheck.org. It would seem that in their desperation, the Republicans are pulling out the stops on outright lying. Last week Dick Cheney told a crowd, in so many words, that if Kerry is elected nuclear bombs will be detonated in cities across America.
The Democrats always want to stay above that fray, trusting that Americans will see through the lying and do what's right. Well, the ones that will already do and either plan to vote for Kerry or Bush. Those who haven't decided yet may control the future, and as far as I'm concerned these people are just plain STUPID. And stupid people will believe whatever lies they hear repeated most often --- which is why the Republicans have spent $8 million on lies.
The Democrats can go after these same dodos by spreading some lies of their own, and I say, why hold back.
What about the allegations that George W. Bush killed a little girl in a drunk-driving accident when he was in college, and his family bought off the prosecutor? Has everyone forgotten the incident where Osama bin Laden was Bush's guest in the White House just after the 2000 election? What happened to the tape of their conversation? How much tax-payer money was deposited in Tony Blair's Swiss bank account to get him to join the Coalition of the Bribed? What about the rumors that Robert Novak told friends that it was a drunk Bush himself that called him to "out" Valerie Plame?
Come on - stupid people love this kind of stuff.
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